Pokémon Crystal (Re-Engineered Soundtrack)

Anyway, we got great new releases today. First the LONG awaited Pokemon 2nd gen Crystal soundtrack restored in the same way as my earlier 1st gen Yellow soundtrack.

This is finally my Re-Engineered GameBoy soundtrack from the 2nd gen Pokemon games. I already released the 1st sometime ago and I recommend to read that ones documentation description since it basically details the complex and tedious process. But in short, this sounds notably better than raw DMG soundchip recordings while still retaining the typical GameBoy sound. Basically my remake gets rid of almost all the noise and clicks. I record high resolution GameBoy audio and then tediously edit each rendering channel to get (almost) completely rid of clicks and pops and make everything sound alot cleaner and less fatiguing. You do not believe how tedious and annoying this process it. Sometimes I was thinking I might as well recompose the stuff from scratch. All tracks have THOUSANDS of edits and optimization. And it took me OVER a year to work on this. This work was insanely time consuming but often I was also working on other stuff, which explains why this took so long.

You might also notice something special. I actually mastered ALL battle music themes into true stereo tracks by arranging the channels left and right. Due to technical limitations, they were only ever mono before. They basically needed the GameBoy channels for SFX. But if you do not like this change, you can also just listen to the mono renders. Violet City also has a special stereo mix as bonus track by me since the original was almost completely programmed in mono and its one of my favorite tracks. Aside of that, everything is exactly as with my 1st gen soundtrack. You can also choose between stereo and mono renders again and final masters are again 24Bit 96khz. Definitely one of my grandest (and most time consuming) works.